Nah as someone who has ridden lightning rod a lot in the past month, the chain lift is a net positive, and it's not just reliability. Now you get airtime over the pre drop again! Rest of the ride is just as relentless. They need to fix that pothole after the wave turn tho, it's brutal.

One change on a roller coaster i hate is that they removed the back cards on cyclops at Mt Olympus. I want to experience the ejector in that last car!

Six flags America recently just retracked roar, should be much smoother now.

The massive spiral walkway for Gold Coaster was because it used to be called the Cyclone… at the time, it was their newest ride big ride, and everyone wanted to ride it… it was rebranded to Gold Coaster. Unsure why but that’s some facts for ya

Dollywood: We can't fix your shit. Lightning Rod: Remove my nuts. 😡🖕

Celine: I don’t wanna add anything for a few years. Also Celine: casually spends a ton of money for six flags.

When I first rode voyage the first 2 times I hated it, it gave me a headache, but my last 2 rides I absolutely loved it

I enjoyed this documentary. It's ashame what happened to Astroworld. I look forward to your Great Adventure documentary.

PNE’s Coaster getting seatbelts could also make this list.

The Orient Express was my favorite Coaster of all time, it had the Worlds FIRST batwing aka Kamikaze curve element, and the plot where the Orient Express sat is still vacant today. The Patriot occupies land to the west of the Orient plot! The Orient Express only got rough in it's later years when Cedar Fair did not do the maintenance on the cars (fing Bastards). This coaster should be #1 on your list, NOT an honorable Mention! here is the current plot of the Orient Express, completely vacant as of May 24, 2024 www.google.com/maps/@39.1766629,-94.4882479,226m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

One of the worst innovations when it comes to roller coasters inversions why go upside down when you don't have to

me after finding out both intimidators got renamed: 👁️👄👁️

Both Space Mountain entries are erroneous. DL's Space operated until the track literally failed. Paris's Space became "Mission Deux" for quite some time before becoming the Star Wars version. Mission Deux was by far the worst iteration of the ride. At least Star Wars has the amazing new trains that make it actually rideable.

Anaconda pls

I don’t care just rode Orion for the first time and it was amazing 🤷🏼

I would had voted for the RMC Conversion of Colossus! It ruint a classic historic wooden racing coaster and made it into a non functional single track dueler.

GCI Woodie plz

Silver lining about Mindbender at SFOG, as of 2024 the trims have been adjusted so you mostly roll through the drop like you used to. They did _not_ add two more cars to the train though, so, curse you Six Flags.

Buy or sell : LRod could have kept its launch if RMC had replaced the launch track and supports by steel track and steel truss lift supports

I rode comet with the new trains and it was a ride killer

Putting the old Georgia Cyclone trains on GASM is definetly one of if not the worst change ever done. That made it unbearbly rough. It could've caused people to vomit profusely if they ride it immediatly after eating a meal with the roughness the coaster had. It should be #1 for the worst changes ever done.

The worst change to any rollercoaster is the new restraints on Skyrush that ruin the lateral forces and cover too much of my legs and turned the coaster into a gp ride.

Not active on insta so didn't know this was coming out but a shout out to Air at Alton Towers being rethemed to Galactica and adding VR - making an already long dispatch unbearable for a garbage gimmick! Good riddance to it

deja vu went to silverwood theme park in Athol Idaho.

For better or for worse Lightning Rod’s change was absolutely necessary. It was very unreliable (a lot of people don’t understand how important reliability is in theme parks) and there were far too many people saying “I went to Dollywood but Lightning Rod was closed”.

I'm surprised that adding VR to coasters wasn't on here.

I heard S&S and I was like, "ok, here we go"😂

I love the Georgia Scorcher! As long as you get your seat right

Top Thrill 2 has entered the chat.

I really think Incredicoaster should be on here. Taking California Screamin’s iconic soundtrack and replacing it with the Incredible’s theme with baby laughter mixed in is my personal least favorite change made to a rollercoaster. The drums in the launch, the buildup on the second huge hill, and the stellar electric guitars that made up the first song were SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED to work alongside its layout. It was BEAUTIFUL. The brass in the Incredible’s theme are great, but they do not work as well for the ride as the old music did.

​I strongly agree with Yardmaster_Media_110's new video idea and I know Airtime Thrills expressed concern that this new idea would follow his "best defunct coasters" list too closely. However, I believe these lists could be differentiated by focusing on the "Why?" of the removal instead of simply the "What?" of the removal. Furthermore I am really into how Yardmaster focused further by basically asking "Why were these roller coasters removed before they needed to be?" I'm going to lay out some examples here if anyone is interested (Airtime Thrills please consider this, but no offense taken if you disagree). This could include most of the Arrow loopers, the Schwarzkopf Jumbo Jets and Jet Stars, any of the Arrow suspended coasters and wooden coasters like Thunder Road at Carowinds or Rolling Thunder at Great Adventure--each of those wooden coasters could have been repaired by either RMC or GCI at the times of their removals relatively cheaply. Carowinds could have simply extended their water park in a different direction or just moved around the support structure of Thunder Road, while Rolling Thunder's reason for scrapping is completely absurd since it only would have interfered with the new drop tower's queue line. The Arrow suspended coasters reaching the "end of their service life" is a vague excuse that does not hold up under scrutiny. Big Bad Wolf's final drop over the river may have put stress on the supports/track but I don't see how the stresses could be any more intense than Vortex at Canada's Wonderland or Ninja at Magic Mountain which have comparable heights, top speeds, train designs and layouts and both still are running...somehow, even though they are well past their "service lives." Some of the Arrow loopers removed in the early 2000's could have had track replacements done by D.H. Morgan or Arrow Dynamics itself. The roughness of Shockwave and Orient Express was well known years before their removal and Alan Schilke and the other Arrow engineers were finally using computer modeling at this time to create smooth track profiling. Arrow badly needed work since they were in dire financial straights and would have been crazy not to take up the jobs, but even if they did not then D.H. Morgan headed by the former president of Arrow-Huss, Dana Morgan, would have also been available. The incredible success of Phantom's Revenge is proof-positive that this work could be done even by a park with lower operating costs then the larger Six Flags and Paramount chain parks. Six Flags Great America and World's of Fun would have known about the smoothness and popularity of Tennessee Tornado in 1999 and could have left Shockwave and Orient Express SBNO for a few seasons and then gradually replaced the roughest sections of track. They then could have reopened these coasters at easily half the cost of a new large-scale roller coaster. Then they would have succeeded in creating a "New" ride for the GP, new advertising opportunities for the marketing teams and still benefited from keeping a classic ride that older fans of the park feel nostalgic about and coaster enthusiasts love. In conclusions these were unwise decisions in every way with the one exception that having them removed helped, in the short term, lesson a little bit of financial stress from a huge corporation. There were even more options available in the late 2010's for fixing Vortex at King's Island or Dragon at Ocean Park. The examples of the complete retracking of Python at Efteling and Incredible Hulk at Universal Orlando show that multiple different companies could successfully retrack steel coasters. There are of course numerous other examples of coaster gone too soon as well. Here are some examples that would not meet the criteria for this list. First, Volcano: The Blast Coaster. Any roller coaster enthusiast reading about the long history of King's Dominion's incredible efforts to fix this ride's problems would understand why it had to be removed. Particularly when the most problematic section of track is difficult to reach, tedious to repair and perhaps even unusually dangerous for maintenance personnel to work on. Son of Beast was another coaster that was removed after years of work by King's Island trying many different techniques to save the ride but it was clear eventually that it could not be saved for MANY reasons. A third example would be Moonsault Scramble. If your roller coaster unavoidably exerts 6.5 g's on it's riders than I understand for safety purposes and the GP's general comfort and enjoyment...it probably has to go, even if I would have loved to ride it I understand that coaster enthusiasts represent a relatively small portion of Park Income so I have made sure there is financial logic in the examples I am using. If a park did not want to pay for refurbishments they had other options like leaving the coaster SBNO for a few years if they had nothing else to put on that plot of land and then that would give the park breathing room to try and sell the coaster or spend money over time testing various smaller fixes without a park opening deadline to worry about. Drier Looping is a great recent example of the sale of an old steel coaster and successful rebuild at Indiana Beach. At the end of the day this all comes to Roller Coaster Conservation which I am very passionate about as are a continually growing number of enthusiasts and I believe it is an important subject for a video that could educate, entertain and perhaps create some interesting debates.

What about adding OTSR to Quimera when it got relocated to Indiana Beach?

I’m surprised steel phantom/phantoms revenge didn’t make it on here. Same for dragster 😅

Avengers flight force at disneyland

The name Thunder Striker makes me cringe. Also, I think Colossus at Thorpe Park & Vampire at Chessington World Of Adventures are worth a mention on here. Colossus's trains had to be changed due to a rider sustaining an injury after taking their leg out of the vehicle, as with Vampire, I just don't like the new trains, they're far too bulky

The loud ass anti rollback added on cobras curse!

They retracked even more of the grizzly at KD so its even better now! but to be picky, the last 3rd of the ride is still rough. of course it doesn't snap my shoulders off my spine anymore, so its improved overall incredibly since before the first retrack

I don't think that the roll on Maverick should be on here; nobody ever even got to experience it in the GP, and a ton of people still love it.

I think you will find that Skyrush goes up in rankings and Comet goes down. Those ratcheting bars are painful. If you try to get the position in the station to give you air time, be prepared to be stapled on the second turnaround. I’m not sure I will be riding Comet in the future after that abdominal bruise.

When I make it to Colorado, I will probably skip this park. Not just because of your experience, but because the park is nothing special. There are many small parks out there that give you a reason to come, Elitch Gardens just doesn't.

I'm still mad over the launch being taken out of Lightning Rod. Couldn't they have just used a tire launch instead

Everything KumbaK touches turns to shit

Ehrm yeah the helix on Boss was the roughest part. Same with the trick-track on Shivering Timbers. Anybody who says that they were the best part of the ride or anything is just playing devil's advocate. People have always agreed that the best part on the Boss is the first section with the double down and speed hill. That part is rather smooth compared to the rest of the ride and features wild airtime and laterals at a blistering pace.

Comet is an upgrade bcuz PTC restraints are better than buzz bars

Rondos on the interwebs that think they're in charge of the dictionary make me laugh.

On Comet, losing the buzz bar sucks, but it seems like the trains are heavier now and it's really freakin bumpy. Like an up and down bumpy

I also found Copperhead Strike lackluster when I was looking forward to it as much as Fury. On the other hand, Jersey Devil was probably my favorite the last time I was at SFGA; granted, that was just a few weeks before El Toro's last accident so it rattled the hell out of me.

me ride rollercoaster me go yippie

disney seems to have a special relationship with vekoma much like you were saying 6 flags works with premier rides. I could very much see rock n rollercoaster get a facelift as a part of a retheme, considering Aerosmith's recent-ish controvery and disney's initiative to keep updating things, but they would probably want vekoma to do it.

ill be honest i dont think the maverick zero g roll was gonna be a good experience. videos of it look so whippy, like it wasnt even heartlined. it would feel less like the velociraptor roll and more like getting smacked by an angry librarian